Thursday, February 09, 2012
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A farmworker advocacy group wants to end the federal H-2A guestworker program for sheepherders, a move that threatens the U.S. sheep industry, a representative of the Western Range Association says. Washington, D.C.-based Farmworker Justice has targeted the sheep industry's H-2A exemption, which ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 10:00 AM
SALEM -- Proposed state legislation to increase Oregon water withdrawals from the Columbia River is either a "major threat" or a welcomed jobs bill, depending on who is asked. House Bill 4101 would create a task force to recommend how to use 450,000 acre-feet of new water withdrawals from the Col ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 9:00 AM
MOXEE, Wash. -- Members of the Martinez family have raised sheep in Central Washington for about 75 years and sometimes wonder how long they will be able to continue. Like sheep ranchers across the West, they face many challenges. Declining grazing leases, hiring sheepherders through cumbersome H-2 ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 10:00 AM
LONGVIEW, Wash. -- The first shipload of grain from the new EGT grain terminal will be on its way to South Korea by this weekend. EGT officials and members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union stood at the Columbia River waterfront to watch the ship, the Hong Kong-registered Full So ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 10:00 AM
ROSEBURG, Ore. -- Cy Holcomb and Nick Williams don't have a thousand bucks in their pockets. So when the Douglas County Livestock Association announced late last year it was beginning a new program -- giving a couple of heifers to area youths -- Cy and Nick were two of several teenagers who submi ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 10:00 AM
WENATCHEE, Wash. -- The Southern Hemisphere apple harvest is just getting started and while it looks like a large crop, fruit size is small, a factor that should bode well for U.S. apple producers. Small apples don't sell well in the U.S., and Washington has enough small fruit from its 2011 crop ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 10:00 AM
KENNEWICK, Wash. -- Washington's top wine company, Ste. Michelle Wine Estates of Woodinville, has given another $1 million toward a new Washington State University Wine Science Center in Richland. Ted Baseler, president and CEO of Ste. Michelle and chair of the WSU Board of Regents, announced t ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 8:44 AM
KENNEWICK, Wash. -- Washington State University President Elson Floyd thanked grape growers and wine makers Feb. 8 for their $7.4 million commitment to support a new WSU Wine Science Center. The state's wine industry agreed late last year to generate the funds for the Wine Science Center through a ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 8:34 AM
KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) -- Washington wine grape growers are holding their annual meeting and trade show through Friday at the Three Rivers Convention Center in Kennewick. Some growers told KNDO (http://is.gd/Dsqqzk ) they hope the mostly mild temperatures and decent snowpack this winter w ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 8:34 AM
A Washington congresswoman says it's too early to speculate whether she would be a possible contender for vice president. Republican strategist Kellyanne Conway named Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., as a possible contender for a spot on the ticket in an article in the Daily Caller, a news ...
Wednesday, February 08, 2012 4:13 PM
SALEM -- The Senate Rules Committee on Feb. 10 will consider Gov. John Kitzhaber's appointments to the Oregon Board of Forestry. They are: * Nils Christoffersen, executive director of the Wallowa Resources, a nonprofit organization in Enterprise, Ore., that works "to design and realize a new, heal ...
Wednesday, February 08, 2012 4:13 PM
The Washington Grain Commission holds its annual wheat and barley research review next week. The review begins at 10 a.m. Feb. 15 at the Holiday Inn Express in Pullman, Wash. Mary Palmer Sullivan, program director for the commission, said the review provides an opportunity for Washington Sta ...
Wednesday, February 08, 2012 4:03 PM
SALEM -- The Oregon House Judiciary Committee on Feb. 8 passed a bill providing three Oregon counties funding and direction to redefine agriculture and forest lands. The committee sent House Bill 4095 to the Ways and Means Committee by a 7-3 vote despite objections from the Oregon Farm Bureau a ...
Wednesday, February 08, 2012 1:03 PM
Weather expert Art Douglas predicts drier conditions and development of an El Niño pattern this spring and summer. El Niño will bring dry conditions to the Pacific Northwest later this year, Douglas said. Historically, El Niños tended to form later and last longer, causin ...
Tuesday, February 07, 2012 5:52 PM
The grain export terminal at Longview, Wash., gives Northwest grain growers an edge in marketing their crop, a representative of the company that built the $200 million complex says. The EGT terminal's assets include the fastest unload times on the Columbia River, at 120,000 bushels per hour, c ...
Tuesday, February 07, 2012 5:22 PM
The Oregon Dairy Farmers Association annual convention will take on hot topics for the sate's dairy industry Feb. 20 and 21 at the Salem Conference Center. "We are really going to focus on the topics of immigration and legislative bills coming our way," said Sue Emerson, president of the As ...
Tuesday, February 07, 2012 4:31 PM
The federal agency that regulates much of the electrical transmission in the Northwest proposed a compromise Tuesday in a dispute with wind producers who were forced to shut down last spring, when heavy runoff produced too much hydroelectric power. The Bonneville Power Administration, bas ...
Tuesday, February 07, 2012 4:31 PM
SALEM -- A House committee moved a bill to the House floor aimed at reducing private landowners share of the cost of fighting forest fires. House Bill 4042 attempts to evenly split the fire-fighting cost between landowners and the state, according to testimony Feb. 7 before the House Agricultur ...
Tuesday, February 07, 2012 3:11 PM
By JOSEPH DITZLER East Oregonian The GPS collar on the Imnaha alpha male has stopped transmitting data, curtailing a text-message warning system that gave Wallowa County ranchers the heads-up on preying wolves. The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Department reported last receiving data from the GP ...
Tuesday, February 07, 2012 11:41 AM
SALEM -- Rep. Brian Clem, D-Salem, says that he believes cattlemen have the votes to get two wolf bills through the Oregon House. House Bill 4005 would provide livestock owners a tax credit for livestock losses to wolves. A second bill, House Bill 4158, stipulates the Oregon Department of Fish ...
Monday, February 06, 2012 3:49 PM
ELLENSBURG, Wash. -- A potential breakthrough for Washington's tree fruit industry labor shortage will be explained at the Washington Farm Labor Association's 8th Annual Labor Conference in Ellensburg, Feb. 16. Last December, after the Obama administration announced a change in immigration poli ...
Monday, February 06, 2012 2:59 PM
OLYMPIA -- With the first cutoff date passed, several important pieces of ag-related legislation are still in play, among them bills related to managing wolves. Off the table are proposals to require labeling of genetically modified foods. Feb. 3 was the date by which bills had to emerge fro ...
Monday, February 06, 2012 2:49 PM
SALEM -- Cherry farmer Jerri McAllister from The Dalles took off from farming Feb. 6 to teach folks at the Oregon Capitol about farming. "A lot of people don't ever get to speak to a farmer," McAllister said when asked why she volunteered to serve cake at the Capitol. "I think it is important f ...
Monday, February 06, 2012 2:29 PM
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- Closing unproductive state tax loopholes and holding down health care costs would help pay for education programs that have suffered deep cuts in recent years, U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee said during an appearance at a small Spokane aerospace company on Monday. The proposa ...
Monday, February 06, 2012 1:59 PM
LONGVIEW, Wash. -- The first ship to be loaded with Washington-grown wheat at the new EGT grain terminal will arrive at the Port of Longview Feb. 7. Registered under EGT's partner company STX Pan Ocean, the ship will carry just over 57,000 metric tons of soft white wheat to South Korea. A labor ...
Monday, February 06, 2012 11:09 AM
Deborah Kane, a former vice president for Ecotrust, has been chosen to head USDA's Farm and School efforts. "After seven great years at Ecotrust, working on FoodHub, Edible Portland and regional farm-to-school initiatives, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to work at the national level and thu ...
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